Building intelligent systems from zero to scale.

Hi, I’m Sudhish — a hands-on technical leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Bangalore. I build and ship AI/ML, data, platform & cloud infrastructure systems — and the teams that sustain them.
My day-to-day spans the full stack of production infrastructure: compute & orchestration, APIs & datastores, CI/CD & monitoring, agentic AI/ML & RAG systems, security & cost optimization — all with a deep DevOps & SRE mindset. I take complex requirements, simplify them, and turn them into future-proof, resilient software.
I’ve led globally distributed, cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, QA & Operations — combining the agility of startups with the discipline of enterprise. I’d rather automate and ship fast than drown in toil and process.
On this website, explore my experience, projects, and blog. Outside of work, I enjoy basketball, swimming, and playing percussion — Tabla, Ghatam, Mridangam & Drums.

Agentic AI and semantic data layer for power-market infrastructure.
Designed an IEC CIM-aligned power-system ontology and built agentic AI services surfacing warehouse data to AI agents via MCP and REST/SPARQL — enabling safe LLM access to production power-market data.
- Led design of a power-system ontology (OWL/SHACL, YAML-LinkML) over a Databricks lakehouse, with a stable graph Reader API across pluggable backends.
- Shipped dual-transport service surfacing warehouse data + semantics to AI agents (MCP) and applications (REST/SPARQL), with CI-enforced parity.
- Built SCED scenario engine orchestration — Dagster → Argo → Metaflow pipelines with 1,000+ concurrent computations (scaling toward 10k+) and per-solve failure isolation.
- Built end-to-end data lineage across forecast, strategy & trading — threading URN-style resource identity from ground data through ontology, data catalog, dbt, and Dagster to outcomes.

Built & scaled an AI product studio helping startups go from idea to production (0→1). Scaled engineering team to 35 organically, operated profitably, and led architecture across frontend, backend, cloud, data, and AI/ML systems.
- Built agentic AI systems using LangChain, RAG, tool-calling, and recommendation engines — deployed across client products with real-time inference and feedback loops.
- Delivered AI-driven platforms for clients across legal-tech (courtroom.ai), healthcare (dentalpracticeconnect.com), real-estate, manufacturing (koo.bz), electronics (sluicebox.ai) and more.
- Incubated HRHouz, an AI-driven ATS platform with agentic resume screening and candidate-matching flows. Won Antler's Shark Tank pitch event.
- Technical advising for startups — YearnMedia, HotMic, Liquidonate, Inductive Robotics, Smartpath, Courtroom, Forkast Restaurants.

Led a team of 5 open-source contributors, growing the engineering org to 20. Offered mentorship and technical guidance to the Open Source Project Steering Committee.
- Built multi-cloud DBaaS on Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm — 8+ regions across AWS & GCP, 100+ customers.
- Stood up Prometheus/Loki/Grafana/PagerDuty observability stack; sustained 99.99% uptime over 6 months.
- Cut cloud spend via spot-instance migration and cluster right-sizing.
- Migrated CI/CD from TeamCity to GitHub Actions for both OSS and cloud pipelines.
- Led SOC 2 compliance end-to-end in under 3 months.

Led 5 platform engineers; promoted to Algorithms Platform Architect supporting 30+ engineers and managers on platform strategy.
- Architected the ML workflow and batch-execution platform (Futura scheduler + Flotilla executor) powering 15k+ daily workflows for 100+ data scientists.
- Saved ~$1.5M/quarter via bin-packing, autoscaling, and spot instances; improved cloud security posture from C+ to A+.
- Contributed to Docker-based microservice framework enabling rapid model deployment and configurable A/B testing.

Led engineering for a multi-cloud IaaS/PaaS abstraction layer for Webex — self-service CI/CD, observability, and datastore abstractions enabling 200+ developers.
- Built and operated Webex infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Rackspace, and OpenStack — 40+ regions, 3M+ DAU.
- Migrated legacy monitoring to cloud-native observability (ELK, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, PagerDuty).
- Designed automated DR workflows; reduced failover time from 3 hours to 15 minutes.

Built a multi-tenant Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) on Oracle Public Cloud — SSO, LDAP, SAML, MFA, lifecycle management, and access gateways.
- Authored the Audit Manager microservice for identity event logging, compliance, and anomaly detection.
- Built Chef/Python orchestration for zero-downtime upgrades of 10+ microservices across global environments.
- Designed Docker-based integration testing deploying full IDCS stacks in isolated environments.

ML models and sensor-data pipelines for Snapdragon SoCs — thermal analysis, activity recognition, and gesture detection.
- Built thermal models used to diagnose and solve chip overheating on Snapdragon SoCs.
- Created automated classifier evaluation tools, cutting ML testing cycles from days to hours.
- Prototyped pickup-gesture detection for face unlock — real-time inference on accelerometer and gyroscope signals.

TA for Computer Architecture and Automata & Formal Languages.

Multi-screen IPTV apps (Android, iOS, Web) with Smooth Streaming, plus OCR/image-based UI test automation — deployed across 80+ global customer sites.
- Designed end-to-end IPTV backend and headend systems — satellite RF ingestion, stream transcoding, and API services.
- Cut testing from 2 weeks (5 testers) to 3 days (1 tester) through automated UI testing.

Developed 3D/4D medical imaging techniques for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome — modeling lungs and diaphragm from 2D MR images.

Programmed ABB Flexpicker with integrated vision systems for Cadbury factory packaging automation.

Built a computer-vision PCB quality checker — reduced inspection time from 7 min to 20 sec per board.

Accepted into Antler US Startup Accelerator (< 2% acceptance rate). Selected out of 6k+ applicants. Won the Shark Tank Pitch Contest at Austin, TX.

Major: Signal & Image Processing · Minor: Numerical Computation
GPA: 3.79 / 4.00

Major: Signal & Image Processing · Minor: Communication Systems
GPA: 9.11 / 10.00
Patents
Publications

Li-Wei Kang, Ming-Fang Weng, Chao-Long Jheng, Ching-Yu Tseng, Sudhish Ramesh, Ankit Gureja, Huan-Cheng Hsu, Chia-Hung Yeh

Partnering with Staff to help their students in transitioning to a career in Tech.

Teaching robot building & programming to middle school girls to get them interested in STEM.

Teaching AI, robot building & programming to school kids to get them interested in STEM.

Mentoring Computer Science students and helping them prepare for industry jobs. Guiding on Resume Writing, Behavioral Interviews & Tech Interviews.
Notes from the field.

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[Dgraph] How We Fixed 2k+ Security Issues
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![[Dgraph] Dynamic AutoScaling Of GitHub Runners thumbnail](/images/blog/20230217_dynamic-autoscaling-of-github-runners/cover.jpg)
[Dgraph] Dynamic AutoScaling Of GitHub Runners
In this article we explain our transition to GitHub Actions for our CI/CD needs at Dgraph Labs Inc. As a part of this ef…

AI, Code, and the Human Brain: Why Prototyping Is Easy but Production Is Hard
Lessons from MIT's 'Your Brain on ChatGPT' study — why AI is powerful for prototyping but risky for production, how AI-g…
![[Dgraph] How We Fixed 2k+ Security Issues thumbnail](/images/blog/20230609_how-we-fixed-2kplus-security-issues/cover.png)
[Dgraph] How We Fixed 2k+ Security Issues
In this article we explain our journey towards Continuous Security Audits to detect and remediate potential Security Iss…
![[Dgraph] Dynamic AutoScaling Of GitHub Runners thumbnail](/images/blog/20230217_dynamic-autoscaling-of-github-runners/cover.jpg)
[Dgraph] Dynamic AutoScaling Of GitHub Runners
In this article we explain our transition to GitHub Actions for our CI/CD needs at Dgraph Labs Inc. As a part of this ef…

